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How smart implants can detect spinal fusion or lack of fusion - Bill Hunter @ Canary explains

27 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Bill Hunter explains how Canary's smart spinal implant works like a tuning fork to detect fusion. Each heel strike sends vibrations through the spine; a loose implant produces a distinct pattern, while successful fusion progressively dampens the vibration until movement stops. Clinicians can identify loose implants and confirm when fusion is complete.

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If you think of this cage in the spine, every time the heel hits the ground, it sends a vibration through the entire skeleton. And so you can almost use that device like a tuning fork, right? So if it's loose, it's going to have one vibrating pattern. And then as you get osteointegration, you're going to dampen that until you, you eliminate that movement altogether. And so you can actually see it. You can see a loose implant. You, you can look at the vibration pattern and then you can see that vibration pattern go away, but you can actually look at it and tell when you've achieved anatomic fusion. So I think, in my opinion, this is probably a much better use of the technology in terms of overall.